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[Library of Congress, Main Reading Room, Washington, D.C.] – Antique Wall Art

[Library of Congress, Main Reading Room, Washington, D.C.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Library of Congress, Main Reading Room, Washington, D.C.], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Washington DC collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with [Library of Congress, Main Reading Room, Washington, D.C.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress, shown here, is the great domed hall at the center of the Thomas Jefferson Building, which opened to the public in 1897. This glass-plate negative was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm known for its photographs of American cities, landscapes and interiors around 1900 to 1910. The room's rotunda and its ring of reading desks, lit from the dome and its tall windows, were meant to show the nation's book collection as a civic monument. The camera captures the scale of the space, which the building's architects designed to feel like a temple of learning.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 1715" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033474. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsRotundas. Libraries. Interiors.United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan814 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66727

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